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latimesblogs.latimes.com - 10/7/2009

Surprised author Tim Powers finds himself setting sail with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' [Updated]

— latimesblogs.latimes.com — Last month, Johnny Depp walked on stage at the Anaheim Convention Center in his Jack Sparrow costume... and delighted a surprised audience of Disney fans with his rummy buccaneer's trademark mutter. Within an hour, in San Bernadino, an award-winning ... Surprised author Tim Powers finds himself setting sail ...

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hollywoodreporter.com - 10/15/2009

Disney picks up 'What's He Got?'

— hollywoodreporter.com — Disney has got its first project under the Rich Ross regime. The studio, which Ross took over... last week as chairman, has picked up "What's He Got?" a comedy project from Kevin Bisch, with Josh Duhamel attached to star. Andrew Panay, Brian Sher and ... Disney picks up 'What's He Got?'

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latimesblogs.latimes.com - 10/5/2009

Disney lowers the boom on Miramax

— latimesblogs.latimes.com — It's not exactly a shock to see the news that Disney is downsizing its Miramax specialty division,... the division that delivered the studio an Oscar best picture winner with "No Country for Old Men" just 18 months ago. Disney is... Disney lowers the boom on Miramax

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Disney Won’t Not Celebrate Opposite Day
Film School Rejects — Ready to have some fun and a headache? If it actually was opposite day, this news story would read as follows: Oren Aviv, who is not the studio production president at Disney, is terrible at coming up with fun story ideas for Disney to exploit. He didn’t conceptualize National Treasure, a film I totally couldn’t stand, and definitely did not see in theaters upwards of 4 times. The basic conceptual idea for Opposite Day — a movie not about a day wherein someone has ...

Opposite Day Will Be the Best Movie Ever
Latino Review — ... of Opposite Day as a plotpoint. Paulsen has also been brought on board to write a reboot of the 80s film Adventures in Babysitting. The new film will be called Further Adventures in Babysitting. In the spirit of things, I would like to declare that Opposite Day already sounds like a fantastic film that's sure to win an Oscar nomination. I just hope they get someone believable, like Dwayne Johnson, to take on the role.   Source: The Hollywood Reporter

THIS IS WHAT THEY CALL ‘HIGH-CONCEPT’
FilmDrunk.com — (”You see, it’s all going exactly according to my five-year plan.”) From TheHollywoodReporter: Disney will celebrate “Opposite Day.”  The studio is developing a high-concept comedy with that title and has hired “Nancy Drew” scribe Tiffany Paulsen to write it.  “Opposite,” based on an original idea by studio production president Oren Aviv, centers on a corporate hatchet man who wakes up one morning and finds he must follow the exact opposite of his normal ...

What Movie Should Disney Make After Opposite Day?
Videogum — ... Oh, Hollywood. Is it the endlessly pleasant weather? Is that what seems to sap all of the ideas from your brains? You would think that with all of your legendary (and conversation-generating) traffic, that you would have some time to sit by yourselves and think things through a little more. In any case, Disney is making a movie called Opposite Day, and it is exactly what it sounds like. From the Hollywood Reporter (via ...